US Patent Issued to DSM IP ASSETS, EVONIK OPERATIONS on July 1 for "Method of reducing the self-heating propensity of biomass" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,838, issued on July 1, was assigned to DSM IP ASSETS B.V. (Heerlen, Netherlands) and EVONIK OPERATIONS GMBH (Essen, Germany).

"Method of reducing the self-heating propensity of biomass" was invented by Michael Benjamin Johnson (Columbia, Md.) and Shannon Elizabeth Ethier Resop (Columbia, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a LC-PUFA biomass composition which has reduced self-heating propensity and thus requires a lessened packing requirement for shipment. The invention also discloses methods for making such biomass composition."

The patent was filed on Aug. 9, 2019, under Application No. 17/250,625.

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